It’s time to continue my series of posts of how I got up and running with iStockphoto. In my last post I covered my addition of Bubble Chairs to my stock portfolio.
Having seen some popularity in the number of downloads with my previous chairs I decided to continue some more with this concept. Continue reading »
I’m continuing on with the series of post of how I got into iStockphoto.
After having tried some new concepts I decided to return to retro chairs and model another favorite of mine. The Bubble Chair. This industrial design classic sits right next to the Ball Chair in my book. This modernist or even spaceage design which to me is another great icon from the 1960 era was also originally designed by Eero Aarnio.
The Bubble Chair got it’s name from its floating bubble-like sensation, and is a great symbol to use for the 1960′s.
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I’m continuing my series of posts of how I got started with iStockphoto. This post continues from my Ball Chair post some days ago.
Beginning the year of 2008 with my humble portfolio of three images I decide to try some new ideas for images to upload. I had recently modeled a creature for my own pleasure and also as an excuse to explore and learn the application ZBrush, so I decided to also use it for my iStock portfolio. I ended up making two renders of my Destrachan creature. Mainly the shadows that differs between them, I wasn’t that happy with my first render with the sharp shadow.
This is a continuation on the subject from the post “A CG Stock Contributor, my first stumbling steps…” I wrote earlier today.
The Ball Chair is a favorite piece of furniture in my world. I actually love and adore most furniture designed from that era, but the Ball Chair is like a classic icon for me that represent everything of the retro futuristic feeling I’m such a fanboy of.
The Ball Chair was originally designed by the furniture designer Eero Aarnio in the 1960′s and is considered a classic of industrial design these days. And rightfully so in my opionion.
I had modeled a Ball Chair for my personal enjoyment in LightWave 3D, and decided I should submit a render of it to iStockphoto. This was my third addition to my stock portfolio at iStock.
I thought I should write a few words of how I got into iStockphoto.
I was working at a company as a flash developer in 2006, and a colleague of mine who was interested in photography talked about this site called iStockphoto and how he tried to get approved for a contributor account there. I vaguely thought that maybe I could do that as well, but submit my CG work as stock footage and I signed up for an account, but at that time, I didn’t have enough free time to take the next step and send in samples to get accepted as a contributor.
Then I more or less forgot about it and it took until March 2007 for me to return to the site and send in my three application sample images which led to that I got my contributor account at iStockphoto approved a few days later.
Not knowing much about stock images, I sent in my first image, which was a shot of a Dry Martini with some Olives in a blue-grey environment. That was sort of my test image to evaluate if there was any point in doing this, and see if anyone would buy it.
